Word: turned
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...this final column, indulge me as I turn to a bigger frame than a particular innovation or trend. The question is, how do we view technological change in our society; more specifically, do we even bother to view the Information Age in a critical light...
...Deng Xiaoping's dictum "To get rich is glorious" has collided with Moore's Law (Intel founder Gordon Moore's observation that the speed of microprocessors doubles every 18 months, as prices fall by half) to produce something you might call President Jiang Zemin's Injunction: Plug in, turn on, cash out. "The Chinese get the Net, O.K.?" says Sean Maloney, who ran Intel's Asia-Pacific operations for three years. "China is going to be unrecognizable in five years. And a large part of that change is going to come through the Internet and onto computer screens." Maloney lets...
...recent interview with TIME, he confided that he has a PC at his Zhongnanhai home and uses it to log onto foreign databases. And top officials insist he is committed to a wired China, fully aware that the country's future depends on growth, which relies, in turn, on technology. Is it just possible that the real great leap forward begins with the initials...
SNAKE EYES (Aug. 7). Since his Oscar turn in Leaving Las Vegas, all Nicolas Cage has done is star in three action films that each topped the $100 million mark and, for a romantic change of pace, made audiences believe in angels. So don't discount this Brian De Palma crime thriller...
...face they are very polite but when they turn their back it's a whole different story," he said...